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Enewsletter • January 26, 2003

Please Note

Vegan Outreach's web host has been added to Spam Cop's blacklist,
leading many ISPs (including mine! -Matt) to block any email that
comes from that server. Because of this, orders
for materials, subscriptions for Vegan Spam, signups for Leaflet
Your Local School Day, and other emails that have been sent to a veganoutreach.org
address have possibly not been received.

If you have tried to contact Vegan Outreach in the past ten days
or so, and haven't gotten a reply email, please contact us again (Matt
for orders, Jack for Leaflet
Your Local School Day).

Also, backorders for display
photos will be filled starting next week.

Hey, Southern California!

Jack Norris, RD, President of Vegan Outreach, and lauren Ornelas,
head of VivaUSA, will be speaking in Los
Angeles on February 11. See this
page for more details!

Did you sign up for the National Day of Leafleting? If so, please
read:

Note: This only applies to people who signed up on the web. If you sent
in your form via snail mail, please disregard.

As mentioned above, we regret to inform you that our email was down from approximately
1/13 to 1/15. During that time, people may have signed up for the National Day
of Leafleting on the Internet, but we may not have received your form. As of
January 23, we have sent a confirmation to the email of everyone for whom we
have a record of signing up. If you did not receive a confirmation, please resubmit
the form. We apologize for this inconvenience.

The Christian Vegetarian Association is pleased to announce that
a revised version of What Would Jesus Eat ...Today? is now available.
This 16-page, full-color booklet answers commonly asked questions and includes
recipes, nutritional information, and resources. We welcome people to visit
www.christianveg.com to learn more
about reaching Christian audiences. Membership to the CVA is free. Booklets
cost 12 cents each in bulk.

Mercy For Animals is pleased to announce
the official launch of www.VegOhio.com.
The site, which lists over 70 veg-friendly restaurants, nearly 55 health food
stores, and 15 vegetarian/animal rights organizations, is the most recent part
of MFA's ongoing veganism campaign.

Cruel and Unusual Punishment on the FarmU.S. livestock agriculture is on a moral race to the bottom.

"Looking at neatly wrapped and packaged meat in the grocery, many consumers
conjure up notions of happy animals peacefully afield. That is just the kind
of Old MacDonald's Farm imagery that corporations want to convey to consumers:
that animals under their care don't have it so bad at all.

"The reality is much less pleasant to consider. Livestock agriculture
in our day has taken a harsh turn, subjecting billions of creatures to rank
cruelty.

"Last year, Florida voters banned the practice of keeping pregnant pigs
in 'gestation crates,' 2-by-7-foot boxes that are so small the animals cannot
turn around.

"The pork industry and many pundits belittled the idea of constitutional
protections for pigs. But what's most surprising is not that Florida voters
approved the measure but that no other state restricts the means of confining
pigs, chickens, turkeys, cattle, sheep or goats.

"Factory farmers may do as they please in the care of animals, with no
standard to consult but industry norms dictated by a rigid economic calculus
and a view of animals as unfeeling machines.

"By contrast, the European Union has passed regulations restricting the
use of veal crates, gestation crates and so-called battery cages, the small
wire cages in which six or eight egg-laying hens are crammed for their entire
lives. These confinement methods are routine in the United States.

"In recent decades, livestock agriculture has seen a collapse of ethical
boundaries, a moral race to the bottom as corporate farmers inflict worse privations
on the animals to cut costs and intensify production. There has also been a
physical redesign of the animals themselves and a forced migration from the
pasture to the prison-like conditions of the modern factory farm....

"Some of us distance ourselves from the violence of meat, milk and egg
production through vegetarianism. But we can all agree on this: If animals are
reared for food, their lives should not be plagued by the occasional torture
and the daily torments and deprivations of the factory farm."

Vegan Outreach is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the suffering of farmed animals by promoting informed, ethical eating.